Black Men ❤️✨

Black men don’t tip toe around me

Find solace in being you

Calling out the world

Just how everyone calls you out too

Be strong in your words

Fill your heart with joy

Know that you are seen in times that feel

Unreceptive, unrelenting and unsure

Know that you can be heard

It’s okay to disrupt

To stand on your word

We hear you

With the strength of building bravery

Speak your truth King

You are not thunder to be silenced

Nor lightning to be feared

You are the steady drum of existence

A rhythm the world has always heard

You are softness unashamed

Hands that build and heal

Not every crown is worn in battle

Some are felt in what you feel

Lay down the weight they handed you

That never fit your frame

You are more than survival stories

More than struggle, more than pain

Be laughter loud and uncontained

Be rest without defense

Be love that flows without permission

Be presence, deep and immense

And when the world forgets your light

Or tries to dim your flame

Remember—within your very being

Lives a legacy untamed

So rise in all your fullness

Unbound, unapologized

Black man, you are worthy

Not someday

But now!

~The Silent Poet